The Vodou Archive: Curating and Sharing the Sources of Vodou Religion and Culture

The Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture: Collaborative Research and Scholarship on Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora will create a freely accessible multimedia digital library that uses audiovisual technologies to curate, elucidate and facilitate the advanced search of the rich primary materials of a central Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition in order to promote discovery and educate a broad public. This collection provides content online for scholars and the public in the form of:

Textual content available as facsimile, updated modernizations and translations

Critical syntheses such as commentary, exegesis, etymology, etc., available in English

New works obtained through the Digital Library of the Caribbean’s self-submission tool

University of Florida and Duke University researchers and librarians, led by project director Benjamin Hebblethwaite (UF) and co-director Laurent Dubois (Duke), with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will support increased understanding of a central Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition, the Vodou religion, by gathering the audiovisual and textual sources of communities, by interpreting the collected materials, by expanding the holdings through a self-submission tool, and by diffusing the knowledge via an open access digital library hosted within the existing Digital Library of the Caribbean.